Edwin gilbert



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E. GILBERT FENCE. NO. 402,732. Patented May '7, 1889 e 3 6 e e T Vz'inemes: Iiweniorz- UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

EDWVIN GILBERT, OF GEORGETOWVN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE GIL- BERT dz BENNETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,732, dated May '7, 1889.

Application filed February 25, 1889. Serial No. 301,045. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN GILBERT, of Georgetown, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to fences in which a wire web is employed which extends between fence-posts and is secured to the latter.

I I will describe in detail a fence embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fence embodying my im- I provement. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof, taken on the line on, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of a cap employed with each of the fence-posts. Fig. 4: is a sectional view on an enlarged scale of a portion of a top rail for the fence, the section being taken on the line y y,

Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates fence-posts. These posts are made of metallic tubes, which are provided with slots at, extending for a distance in the direction of the lengths of the posts, said slots opening at their upper ends at the tops of the posts. The portions of the posts below the 0 lower ends of the slots are tubular, and in the example of my improvement shown the lower ends of the posts are flattened out, so as to form driving-points b for the posts.

13 designates a wire-fence web, which may 3 5 be of the usual or any desired construction.

When the fence is to be erected,the posts are first driven into the ground and the web B is then passed downwardly through the slots in the posts.

C designates caps for the posts, which caps may be secured upon the upper ends of the posts by screw-threads or in any other desirable manner. The caps are hollow and are provided with oppositely-arranged slots 0, so constructed that when the web B has been arranged upon the posts and the caps are adjusted into proper position the web B will extend into the slots 0. The web 13 may be further secured to the fence-posts by means of bolts or rivets 0, extending through the posts.

In conjunction with this fence I employ a top rail, D, which top rail may also be tubular and is slotted longitudinally upon one side, as at d. In this example of my improvement the 5 5 top rail is secured to the caps C by means of lugs or projections on the caps, which extend into the slots formed in the top rail. A bolt or rivet may then be passed through the top rail and said lug or projection in order to secure the parts together.

The web B, when the top rail has been adjusted, will also extend along its upper edge into the slot in the top rail. I have shown a convenient means for securing the web to the top rail and within said slot, consisting of hooks 6. These hooks having been passed through the slot may be engaged with the Web, and the shanks of the hooks be then passed upwardly through suitable holes in the upper side of the top rail,where they may be upset. I have illustrated this construction more clearly in Fig. l. A convenient way to arrange the hooks in the top rail is to turn them so that the hook portions will extend parallel with the slot and pass them upwardly through the slot and their shanks through the holes in the top side of the rail. The hooks may then be turned round so that the hook portions will extend at right angles to the slots. The shanks are then upset upon the outside of the rail, in order to secure the hooks in position. It is quite easy to engage the hooks with the web after they have been passed into the top rail.

By my improvement a very strong and durable fence is made, and one withal which may be very cheaply constructed.

I have filed an application for United States Letters Patent for an improvement in fences, 0 Serial No. 301,044, dated February 25,1889.

In said application I show a tubular fencepost slotted longitudinally to receive a wire web and a top rail also slotted longitudinally,

in which the web is received, together with 5 certain novel means for securing the top rail to the fence-post. I do not herein lay claim, broadly, to what is claimed therein.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A fence comprising tubular posts slotted longitudinally, a wire-fence web arranged in said slots, and a top rail secured to said posts and slotted longitudinally to receive the Web, substantially as specified.

2. A fence comprising tubular posts slotted longitudinally, a wire-fence web arranged in said slots, a top rail slotted longitudinally to receive said Web, and caps for said posts, provided with slots to receive the Web and secured to said top rail, substantially as specified.

3. A fence comprising tubular posts slot-ted longitudinally, a wire-fence Web arranged in said slots, a top rail slotted longitudinally to receive said Web, and caps for said posts, provided with projections extending into the T5 slots in the top rail, substantially as specified.

4. A fence comprising tubular posts slotted longitudinally, a Wire-fence Web arranged in said slots, a top rail slotted longitudinally to receive said Web, securing devices for secur- 2o ing the Web in the slot in the top rail, and caps for said posts to which said top rail is secured, substantially as specified.

EDWIN GILBERT.

itn esses:

FREDK. HAYNES, ARTHUR H. GAMBLIN. 

